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Comment spam bombing

After such a long time, I finally got hit last night with 31 comment spams. Of course, I have WordPress set so that “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” before a comment appears. Everything was spam, so just two clicks and all were marked spam and moved from moderation. 🙂

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Bryan Villarin

Bryan is a Community Guardian at Automattic. He's also a photographer, card magician, and cat whisperer.
(Thanks to my friend and colleague Steve Blythe for the sweet photo!)
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Ian: I’ll only resort to a comment spam plugin if they get through. I’m glad they haven’t, though. It’d just make for yet another thing I’d have to keep updating. I’ll do whatever I can not to resort to using a Captcha.

I’ve actually been having some comment spam problems myself lately. The thing that really confuses me is, I also have WordPress set to ““Comment author must have a previously approved comment”, yet they’re showing up anyway without any interaction by me. Any tips?